I watched this movie growing up every time it was The Movie of the Week on TV and still like watching it and hearing all the music. My great-grandmother saw John Phillip Sousa and his band when they came to town when she was a little girl.
Surprisingly the soundtrack to this movie was made with extraordinary care! Resulting in not well known movie about a great composer, one of those standing firmly at foundation of modern American music. But it is a honest memorial and tribute to him.
I once participated in a discussion about music, American composers specifically, and one person mentioned that there were no Hispanic American composers that he could think of. I blushed a bit at his momentary loss of memory, and reminded him that John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. of a Portuguese decent father born in Spain, and a German mother. I think that makes him Hispanic.
He later remarked that it was a way to show the Northern people that the ex confederates were now our countrymen again. Their songs are our song and our songs are theirs. It was a way of saying that we always were brothers and we can go back to being brothers. We weren’t Yankees or Confederates anymore, we were all just Americans.
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That choir is absolutely amazing!!! ❤
John Philip Sousa is everything great about this country! God bless America!
John Phillip Sousa was violently opposed to segregation, and this was the film's nod to that.
I watched this movie growing up every time it was The Movie of the Week on TV and still like watching it and hearing all the music. My great-grandmother saw John Phillip Sousa and his band when they came to town when she was a little girl.
Is it just me or was Sousa making a point
Nah he for sure tryna make a point, good on him
This is my favorite scene throughput the whole movie
I just finished reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe yesterday. This had special meaning for me today!
I found this movie on UA-cam and. Listen to it several times each week. Debra Paget singing Father's Got EM. Is vhypbnotizing
After 1:35 and till the end... oh my... it's beautiful :"
Surprisingly the soundtrack to this movie was made with extraordinary care! Resulting in not well known movie about a great composer, one of those standing firmly at foundation of modern American music. But it is a honest memorial and tribute to him.
Still so wonderful
I once participated in a discussion about music, American composers specifically, and one person mentioned that there were no Hispanic American composers that he could think of. I blushed a bit at his momentary loss of memory, and reminded him that John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. of a Portuguese decent father born in Spain, and a German mother. I think that makes him Hispanic.
No - Portugal is in Europe. It makes him European.
John Phillip Sousa created a march for The Royal Welch Fusiliers because the British unit was fighting with the USMC at Peking in a siege of 90 days.
I didn't know that.
Nice clip
Awesome!!!!!
His father was born in Seville, Spain
A just song !!!
YEEEEH! So my hero SOUSA isn’t RACIST. He’s my HERO!
My favorite scene! I am white Southern man!
Since when did kernel Kentucky actually met sousa???
Today you won’t get to watch this kind of movie anymore.
I wonder why Lincoln wanted to hear Dixie...
Maybe Lincoln wanted to heal the anger. Lincoln liked the song
He later remarked that it was a way to show the Northern people that the ex confederates were now our countrymen again. Their songs are our song and our songs are theirs. It was a way of saying that we always were brothers and we can go back to being brothers. We weren’t Yankees or Confederates anymore, we were all just Americans.
@@robertcurry389 Ok that makes sense! I guess I hadn't thought of it that way, because it's so often used as a rallying cry for "southern pride."
this is the real America !
A wonderful fantasy. But a fantasy it was in Georgia in the 1950s
Dixie was played before that !!!
African-Americans Now and Forever, Free. Amen. Why? Because We're the Good Guys. (smile)
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All Americans are great! I am European American guy by the way!
Liberals are not good! I am conservative male!
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What a joke...lol...
You dont know the history, then
Isailovic you are a joke.
Get a life.😂😂😂
@teachisailovic889 cry me a river, build me a bridge and get over it. Also read a single history book I implore you.